A 16-year-old girl with invasive carcinoma of the vulva.
We present a 16-year-old girl with vulvar squamous cell carcinoma. The patient initially received a radical treatment because of lymph-node dissemination. However, recurrent disease erupted a little more than one year after the initial treatment, with metastases in the right lung and multiple osteolytic skeletal metastases. Despite aggressive treatments with chemotherapy the patient died about 2 years after the initial diagnosis. An aggressive radical treatment must be chosen for cases of invasive vulvar carcinoma, irrespective of the patient's age.
Nilsson
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Department of Gynecologic Oncology, University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden.
Alm
P
P
Malmström
H
H
Simonsen
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E
Tropé
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C
D000293:Adolescent; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D014846:Vulvar Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy